field recording
14.09.2012
Hertzquelle (50Hz source) programmed at ICMC, Ljubljana
Hertzquelle (50Hz source) was selected to be played in the acousmatic music program of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2012) in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The piece Hertzquelle (50Hz source) reveals the very source of the ubiquitous hum of 50Hz that surrounds everyone of us, everywhere, everytime. It can be heard from alarm clocks perturbing the nightly silence, from power adapters that are never switched off, when you touch a blank audio cable, or from badly ground-lifted amplifiers.
This is where it is all coming from, the very place where the world-wide hum originates to radiate all around the earth, tuning the world to its frequency. Read the rest of this entry »
Outprovisation — Improvisation with Live-Recorded Environmental Sound at ICMC, Huddersfield
ICMC 2011 Late Night Concert 2, Students’ Union, Huddersfield, UK
Outprovisation breaks the tyranny of the instant and fragments the unity of time and place, by improvising with unpredictable live streams from the vicinity of the concert venue: the bar, a park, the street, a shopping mall…
It enlarges at the same time the temporal horizon, the loci of presence, and the sonic space, doubling it by the abstract space of transformed sounds. Read the rest of this entry »
live performance at placard headphone festival, Instants Chavires
cataRT, binaural field recordings
MTBF live at the placard headphone festival, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, Paris.
Video documentation is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppxN5YtfZVA
18.04.2010
MTBF tracks played on the framework radio show
Three recent MTBF tracks (Knochenmühle, Hertzquelle, Trowel and Seal) were played in the fantastic field-recording oriented radio show framework on radio Resonance 104.4fm in London presented by Patrick Mcginley.
framework – phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity presented by patrick mcginley
07.03.2010
Radio play on the framework show
The field-recording oriented radio show framework on radio Resonance 104.4fm in London, presented by Patrick Mcginley, aired another MTBF soundscape as introduction on 07.03.2009.
See this post for more information about the show.
20.01.2010
Hertzquelle (50Hz source)
The piece Hertzquelle (50Hz source) reveals the very source of the ubiquitous hum of 50Hz that surrounds everyone of us, everywhere, everytime. It can be heard from alarm clocks perturbing the nightly silence, from power adapters that are never switched off, when you touch a blank audio cable, or from badly ground-lifted amplifiers.
This is where it is all coming from, the very place where the world-wide hum originates to radiate all around the earth, tuning the world to its frequency. Read the rest of this entry »
13.12.2009
Radio play on the framework show
The fantastic field-recording oriented radio show framework on radio Resonance 104.4fm in London presented by Patrick Mcginley aired an MTBF soundscape as introduction on 13.12.2009.
framework – phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
presented by patrick mcginley Read the rest of this entry »
06.06.2009
Exciting sound art festival, Montreuil
The first deambulatory sound art event “FESTIVAL D’EXPÉRIMENTATIONS SONORES” takes place in Montreuil, France, with performances in unusual places such as a whig workshop, a van, a hairdresser’s saloon, an elevator. MTBF will team up with guitar magician Cyril Touzé for a musical exploration of the earth’s stratigraphy.
http://www.myspace.com/circuitsonore
24.10.2008
Silver Sounds Exhibition with MTBF soundscape wins award
See the exhibition’s site at http://www.naughtongallery.org/silversounds.
The exhibition is unique because visitors can ‘hear’ as well as see the University’s silver collection, through using handheld computers to highlight objects and listen to the artists’ interpretations. Ten internationally renowned sound artists created sound pieces to accompany 22 of the silver objects, exploring their origins and the reasons for their creation and use. Read the rest of this entry »
Trowel and Seal Silver Sounds exhibition soundscape, Naughton Gallery, QUB, Belfast
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This composition was commissioned by Queens University, Belfast, for the QUB Silver Collection soundscapes project, a permanent exhibition at QUB’s Naughton Gallery that presents the universities rich silver collection in a setting where each piece is accompanied by a soundscape, commissioned from one of ten internationally renowned sound artists. These soundscapes respond to the provenance of a particular piece of silverware and explore the reasons for its creation, donation and use and combine with the silver objects to create a new immersive artwork.
The exhibition won the 2008 Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.
The soundscape for the two exhibition objects Presentation Seal and Trowel (1896) is based on the re-contextualisation of sounds stemming from the life cycle and environment of the exposed objects: their creation, their materiality, their usage, and the concepts and entities they refer to. These sounds are re-contextualised into a soundscape according to their sonic characteristics by corpus-based synthesis, creating a reminiscence of the objects’ presence in its multiple facets, a sort of sonic cubism.